Dáire Bohan learned to code at age eight, encouraged by his father, and turned that early skill into a career making video games. He founded Bura Games and released hit titles on Roblox such as Wizard Simulator and Anime Fighters, generating substantial income while still in college. He reached his first million in his early twenties and, following his mother's advice, kept that wealth largely secret to avoid insincere friendships and preserve his personal experience. He compares game development to playing games, describing both as creating worlds and credits early passion for his success.
In conversation on the newest episode of the Money Talks podcast, Bohan explains how his love of video games ultimately paid off handsomely. Encouraged by his father, Bohan first learnt how to code at just eight years of age. Today, he's the 23-year-old founder and CEO of Bura Games, and a self-made millionaire. Perhaps video games don't rot your brain, after all.
"I just fell in love," he says of that formative childhood experience. "Building a video game isn't all that different from playing a video game - instead of placing blocks, I'm now connecting these bricks together, but I'm still creating my own world." Bohan would eventually go on to create his worlds inside a larger ecosystem - the hugely popular multiplayer online platform Roblox, where he scored big with the likes of Wizard Simulator and Anime Fighters.
Taking the advice of his mother on board when money first started rolling in a few years before, he opted to keep his millionaire status a secret from just about everybody. "I realised that I didn't want people to like me because they thought I was cool because I made money, nor did I want people to hang out with me because they thought they could get something out of me," he tells Katie Byrne on the Money Talks podcast.
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